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Google Outage
- arunagarwal 13y agoDrive and Docs are down now!
- AndrewDucker 13y agoGoogle Groups also failing.
- anigbrowl 13y agoSomething something rimshot. Ironically, Google Reader has been fine.
- de_dave 13y agoBoth apps- and non-apps working fine here in the UK. From the status page: "This issue is affecting less than 0.007% of the Google Mail user base"
- whafro 13y agoMaybe that's true in the usual way we'd understand that percentage (the percentage of total users subject to this particular issue). But based on the fact that all seven of my Google accounts were inaccessible via IMAP, I'm wondering if they only had 0.007% of users fail in their attempt to access the service during that window, while many other potentially-affected users were simply blissfully ignorant of the issue.
- CodeCube 13y agoheh, as I was first scanning the HN homepage, I read this as "Google Outrage" and immediately thought it was talking about something like the scroogled campaign.
- Laremere 13y agoMy university google accounts were down earlier. They're back now though.
- sp8 13y agoThe UK University I work at is experiencing problems with IMAP connections and intermittent problems with Google Drive. I believe other UK Universities are also experiencing similar problems. Web access to the same services seems OK though.
- brokentone 13y agoMy hosting provider had some serious connection issues moments ago, and I'm seeing some major latency and packet loss at L3: http://internethealthreport.com/ http://internethealthreport.com/ Anyone have any insight?
- jeffehobbs 13y agoFor a second, thanks to that headline, I thought this was a new service from Google (and frankly, I was excited for it).
- mikeash 13y agoIn a way, it is.
- anigbrowl 13y ago'Helps you spend more time away from the computer, doing the things you really care about!' Sign me up :)
- pyre 13y agoWell, I initially read it as Google Outrage. I wonder if that would be a better product name. ;-)
- jofo25 13y agoGood name for Google's complaints system.
- n3rdy 13y agoGoogle Outage: When you need to kick a site offline, Google now provides the most powerful network for all your nefarious packet flooding needs. Don't be too evil. Wink! Wink! I mean, Google Outage: When you need to know if a site is offline!
- shrikant 13y agoWell that's an unfortunate coincidence. They only just sent out this email a couple of days back: http://i.imgur.com/yZOdKTb.png http://i.imgur.com/yZOdKTb.png
- shawabawa3 13y agoTo be fair, they only quoted 3 9's and I doubt they'll lose that because of this
- wahsd 13y agouptime percentages are a useless measure
- mintplant 13y agoHow so?
- badgar 13y ago> uptime percentages are a useless measure Uptime is only useless if you don't care about high availability. Many startups don't, but Google sure does.
- bdg 13y agoIt depends. You can look back at a year and say "We had 100% uptime". You can also make an assurance that you have %90 uptime, %99, 99.9, or even %99.99 and beyond which all actually carry a meaning about load balancing, fall over, and redundancy.
- jamesaguilar 13y agoAccording to the mail outage info, it's only affecting .007% of users anyway. Pay the SLA penalty for those guys and move on.
- arunagarwal 13y agoExperiencing problems with IMAP connections!
- kristaps 13y ago> Google Documents service has already been restored for some users, and we expect a resolution for all users in the near future. Please note this time frame is an estimate and may change. So many words for "we're still working on it."
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- robflynn 13y agoOf my 10 google apps for domain accounts, 9 were down. They seem to have all trickled back online over the past 30 minutes. Looks like things are coming back online gradually.
- philbarr 13y agoYou gotta feel bad for that intern that tripped over a server cable.
- dspeyer 13y agoGoogle is better designed than that. No single cable failure could cause a user-facing outage of more than a few minutes.
- bproctor 13y agoI'm pretty sure he was joking
- zecho 13y agoMaybe it was sarcasm all the way down?
- rgbrenner 13y agoI hope not.. If it takes more than a couple of minutes for you to figure out how to plug in a cable, I would wonder why google let you in the building
- dspeyer 13y agoIf it's a main multimegawatt power cable, it could take a while to plug back in (first the charred corpse needs to be removed). But it doesn't take long to redirect all traffic to another datacenter.
- lucb1e 13y agoI was expecting a blogpost about it with explanation like Cloudflare always has. But no, Google's not like that I guess.
- cobrien 13y agoIt's oddly amusing that a similar outage occurred exactly one year ago, 17 April 2012: http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/17/2954949/gmail-outage-april-2012 http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/17/2954949/gmail-outage-april...